The napowrimo.net prompt for day 2: ‘write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the color of the shirts on the people you remember there.’ Continue reading
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National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 1
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem. I mostly didn’t. Today’s entry is off-prompt; it was instead inspired by Stephen King’s April Fool’s Day tweet.
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This is what it’s like (a poem)
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem, but the NaPoWriMo early-bird prompts today all seem to want poems about (or somehow referring to) birds. So much for promises…
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Quarantanamo (a poem)
I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a coronavirus poem. So much for promises…
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Live jelly cam (a poem)
Inspired by the Moneterey Bay Aquarium’s Live Jelly Cam.
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Coffee ice cream and Scottish ale (a poem)
Too much CNN lately.
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Eight weeks (a poem)
For now…
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This is not the world you were imagining (a poem)
Image adapted from the CDC website.
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The week America woke up (a poem)
Image adapted from the CDC website.
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Phonanigans (a poem)
This is why I prefer email.
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